{"id":174,"date":"2011-06-14T20:50:04","date_gmt":"2011-06-15T13:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/14\/lunch-with-jack-ritch-chairman-of-asia-pacific-airport-corporation\/"},"modified":"2012-11-22T14:11:04","modified_gmt":"2012-11-23T07:11:04","slug":"lunch-with-jack-ritch-chairman-of-asia-pacific-airport-corporation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/lunch-with-jack-ritch-chairman-of-asia-pacific-airport-corporation\/","title":{"rendered":"Lunch with Jack Ritch, Chairman of Asia Pacific Airport Corporation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was an interesting day as 12 of San Francisco\u2019s old brigade  of expats assembled at the inaugural &#8220;The Aussie Club&#8221; lunch arranged by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfaussies.com\">Australian American Chamber of Commerce<\/a>. Held in the Fountain Room at The Fairmont Hotel on Nob Hill, we discussed the top issues impacting Australia. Hosted by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usa.embassy.gov.au\/whwh\/SanFranCG.html\">The Honourable Nigel Warren \u2013 Consul General and Senior Trade  Commissioner for Australia<\/a>, the eloquent and very experienced Mr. Jack Ritch, Chairman of Asia Pacific Airport Corporation\t(the owner of Melbourne Airport) gave a comprehensive  and insightful summary of the Australian political and business  landscape.<\/p>\n<p>Top issues were the lack of political leadership and for me, the issues  surrounding the long term immigration and detention of what the Americans call &#8220;illegal aliens&#8221;. Particularly, I am  concerned about how our international friends and business partners see  our mistreatment of people who are refugees. Despite being in dialogue with our neighbours in the  Asia Pacific area, there is no clear plan on how to manage this in the  longer term. Politicians need to realize this is of critical importance.<\/p>\n<p>Mining tax, Carbon tax and other internal political manifestations  are domestic affairs that will be debated and finalized. The big issue  is the modernity of the Australian brand in the international community  and how to ensure that it is advanced with the fast pace of economic  growth our wonderful country is achieving.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/bruce-robyn-jack-nigel-leigh-alan-andrew-r.jpg\" title=\"bruce-robyn-jack-nigel-leigh-alan-andrew-r.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/bruce-robyn-jack-nigel-leigh-alan-andrew-r.jpg\" alt=\"bruce-robyn-jack-nigel-leigh-alan-andrew-r.jpg\" align=\"absbottom\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was an interesting day as 12 of San Francisco\u2019s old brigade of expats assembled at the inaugural &#8220;The Aussie Club&#8221; lunch arranged by the Australian American Chamber of Commerce. Held in the Fountain Room at The Fairmont Hotel on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/lunch-with-jack-ritch-chairman-of-asia-pacific-airport-corporation\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":235,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions\/235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}